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20th Tour de Beauce Bell - 2.2
Canada, June 14-19, 2005
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Third stage a lucky charm for O'Loughlin
By Matt Hansen in St. Georges
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A rain-soaked, shortened stage saw Navigators finally take a stage win, with Irish champ David O'Loughlin just stay ahead of a charging field, as his teammate Vassili Davidenko sprinting for second in a select group of 33 riders. Quebec rider Dom Rollin fought hard in the stage, finishing with the leaders and will wear yellow in the 27km time trial tomorrow.
How it unfolded
The 180km stage was shortened to 142km so the entire caravan drove from the original stage start at St. Joseph to the new start at Beauceville. With rain making conditions on the first KOM even worse - the climb had large holes and gravel due to roadwork, coupled with a nasty wooden bridge beforehand - there was not much protest from the field. Once again the temperature was under ten degrees Celsius; the clouds opened up with drizzle, and riders emerged at the very last possible moment from their warm team cars, donning long sleeves, raincoats, overshoes and long-fingered gloves.
Before the stage, there was a mix of both ambition and dread for the day's events. After yesterday's epic day, the list of GC contenders was small: only the top 15 riders were within even a few minutes. One of the riders in yesterday's lead group was young revelation Brandon Crichton (Italpasta - Transport Belmire), who at 20 surprised many with his 7th place and the stage, and inheritance of the best young rider's jersey. "Today should be another tough day and I my plan is to keep the red jersey," he said. "How? I will just follow the big guns, stay at the front and survive." Another Canadian, Andrew Pinfold joked that he wasn't sure which one of his Symmetrics teammates he should support - there were three to choose from in the top 15. "Well right now since they are all up there I'm just not sure whom to work for. Maybe since I'm 18 minutes down I should just try and make it all back today and go for the lead myself. Yeah, that sounds right on."
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Dominique Rollin, who took the yellow jersey after winning yesterday, said that his small Quebec team was still up for the task ahead: defending the lead. Resembling a similar situation yesterday, where the smaller Volkswagen - Trek team worked beyond expectations for Martin Gilbert, Rollin said anything was possible. "We will do what we can - ride a little tempo when we can, but mostly show ourselves at the front. I'll do my absolute best to keep my lead for Friday's time trial."
Rollin wasn't the only one thinking ahead. With the double stage day looming - a TT in the morning and an evening criterium, followed by a tough Quebec circuit Saturday - some of the other contenders hoped to play it cool and save it for those crucial stages. Cyclingnews.com's Gilbert De Weerdt said that the plan was just that: "Another day to stay at the front, make the moves but not do too much. The race will be won or lost in the next few days."
After yesterday's tough stage, Canada's Dom Perras was on the offensive from the get-go, attacking several times and getting a gap along with Amore e Vita Beretta's Kimmo Kananen. Although the day was cold, many riders seemed keen to warm themselves up by riding hard. For Perras, it was a sign his legs felt good. "I cracked a bit at the end yesterday so I was disappointed. I rode well the entire race, making the lead moves, bridging up when there were gaps, and it was just the last hill where I didn't have it. That's racing. But yeah, today the legs felt good so I hope I can pull out a good result in the next few days - maybe on the Quebec circuit, that would be great." Another rider who seemed eager to test his legs was Jittery Joe's - Kalahari rider Tim Johnson, whose Tour de Beauce Bell has been relatively quiet. Even after quite a few tough stretches of climbs and false flats where several smaller groups formed, the peloton regrouped, with the help of the Health Net and Quebec team. After the stage, Rollin would praise his riders, saying that "They all really rode well, especially Alexandre Nadeau. It was great. I was on the rivet a few times but I made it to the end."
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Navigators tested the field, riding hard over the first KOM, splitting the field. But the pack regrouped again for another flurry of attacks - and with 40km to go, a serious move came from Johnson, who being a former 'cross star might have just been enjoying the foul weather, and at one point had 40 seconds on the field. Perras made another attack and tried to bridge, but once again, the Navigators-led field was too aggressive and brought him back, and then Johnson.
A slew of attacks came from the peloton in the final 10km - initiated by Health Net and Navigators, and ultimately, as the pack approached the two finishing circuits, O'Loughlin and Doug Ollerenshaw broke clear. The duo was just ahead of the field - which split twice due to the pace - and with a few strong pulls by Pinfold and Canada's Max Plaxton, it was down to the wire with one lap to go. As the line approached the Irishman put a small gap after the short climb and Ollerenshaw was just caught as the pack swarmed him. O'Loughlin managed to stay clear by a few bike lengths and Davidenko took the sprint over Amore e Vita Beretta's Domenico Passuello.
The race continues tomorrow with the 27km test against the clock.
Photography
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Images by Matt Hansen/matthewhansen.net
- Young Rider Jersey Brandon Crichton (Italpasta - Transport Belmire) at the start
- Charles Dionne (Canada) talks to Health Net's Justin England
- The pack on the startline
- Canada's Max Plaxton and Andrew Pinfold (Symmetrics) the workhorses in the final kilometres
- The gals (and guy) of the feed zone
- David O'Loughlin (Navigators) damp but happy after his win
Images by Karoline Thériault
- Autograph hunters managed to find the start
- The start was improvised for the shorter stage
- The peloton rolls trough he very damp Canadian countryside.
- The start of one of many climbs
- Tackling yet another hill
- The peloton strings out on a climb
- Jockeying for position as riders cross a bridge.
- Brandon Crichton (Italpasta - Belmire Transport) has been one of the revelations of this tour
- Descending was no fun either
- Riders had to tackle fog as well as rain and hills today
- A two-man break emerges from the gloom
- Two riders try to escape
- Wojciech Kalemba (Mesetacaffe-Mbk-Scout) still in the mountains jersey
- Kevin Lacombe (Volkswagen-Trek)
- Riders pass a farm but decline to buy it.
- Max Plaxton (Canadian national team)
- Riders work on a climb with race leader Dominique Rollin (Equipe du Quebec) in yellow, left
- David O'Loughlin (Navigators) rides in the peloton during stage 3
- Riders battle up a climb in the foul conditions.
- Zach Bell (Canada) grits his teeth against the cold.
- The final lap. And there was much rejoicing.
- David O'Loughlin (Navigators) wins the stage
- David O'Loughlin (Navigators) celebrates a tough win
- The podium - Domenico Passuello (Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska), David O'Loughlin (Navigators) and Vassili Davidenko (Navigators)
- Vassili Davidenko (Navigators) waves from the podium
- David O'Loughlin is congratulated on his win
- David O'Loughlin waves from the podium
- Dominique Rollin (Equipe du Quebec) in the points jersey
- Dominique Rollin (Equipe du Quebec) kept the leader jersey too
Stage 3 - June 16: St-Joseph - St-Joseph, 180 km
Results
1 David O'Loughlin (Irl) Navigators Insurance 3.46.24 2 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators Insurance 0.03 3 Domenico Passuello (Ita) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 4 Tomasz Lesniak (Pol) Paged - MBK - Scout 5 Mike Jones (USA) Health Net pb Maxxis 6 Kimmo Kananen (Fin) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 7 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics 8 Jean-François Laroche (Can) Equipe du Quebec 9 Wojciech Kalemba (Pol) Paged - MBK - Scout 10 Charles Dionne (Can) Canadian National Team 11 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators Insurance 12 Jean-Sébastien Maheu (Can) Volkswagen-Trek 13 Krzysztof Mermer (Pol) Paged - MBK - Scout 14 Timothy Johnson (USA) Jittery Joe's-Kalahari 15 Max Plaxton (Can) Canadian National Team 16 Dominique Rollin (Can) Equipe du Quebec 17 Brandon Crichton (Can) Italpasta - Belmire Transport 18 Doug Ollerenshaw (USA) Health Net pb Maxxis 19 Finn Heitmann (Ger) Stevens Racing Team 20 Dominique Perras (Can) Canadian National Team 21 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance 22 Dawid Krupa (Pol) Paged - MBK - Scout 23 John Lieswyn (USA) Health Net pb Maxxis 24 Chris Isaac (Can) Italpasta - Belmire Transport 25 Cesar Grajales (Col) Navigators Insurance 26 Kacper Sowinski (Pol) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 27 Glen Alan Chadwick (Aus) Team Cyclingnews.com 28 Jamie Burrow (GBr) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 29 Jacob Erker (Can) Symmetrics 30 Claudio Bartoli (Ita) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 31 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Navigators Insurance 32 Christian Meier (Can) Symmetrics 33 Justin England (USA) Health Net pb Maxxis 34 Martin Gilbert (Can) Volkswagen-Trek 0.19 35 Cameron Jennings (Aus) Team Cyclingnews.com 0.56 36 Chris Kuhl (USA) CRCA/Sakonnet Technology 37 Oleg Grichkine (Rus) Navigators Insurance 38 Mike Sayers (USA) Health Net pb Maxxis 39 Cory Jay (Can) CRCA/Sakonnet Technology 1.03 40 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Symmetrics 41 Nat Faulkner (Can) Italpasta - Belmire Transport 42 Raphaël Tremblay (Can) Volkswagen-Trek 1.29 43 Christian Heule (Swi) Stevens Racing Team 2.04 44 Sven De Weerdt (Bel) Team Cyclingnews.com 2.55 45 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Symmetrics 3.41 46 Ryan Roth (Can) Canadian National Team 4.03 47 Dustin Macburnie (Can) Yeti 6.23 48 Alexandre Nadeau (Can) Equipe du Quebec 8.34 49 Bradley Fairall (Can) Symmetrics 14.52 50 Cory Lange (Can) Symmetrics 51 Jeremy Vennell (NZl) Team Cyclingnews.com 52 Kevin Lacombe (Can) Volkswagen-Trek 53 Zach Bell (Can) Canadian National Team 17.45 54 Jonathan Sundt (USA) Jittery Joe's-Kalahari 20.20 55 Leigh Palmer (Aus) Team Cyclingnews.com 56 Richard Bowker (NZl) Italpasta - Belmire Transport 57 Tom Barras (GBr) Team Cyclingnews.com 58 Peter Morse (Can) Yeti 59 Johny Hayes (USA) CRCA/Sakonnet Technology 24.31 60 Mathieu Roy (Can) Equipe du Quebec 61 Evan Elken (USA) Jittery Joe's-Kalahari 62 Peter Sanowar (Can) Italpasta - Belmire Transport 63 Daniel Maclaren (Can) Italpasta - Belmire Transport 64 Alex Richer (Can) Yeti 65 Przemyslaw Mikolajczyk (Pol) Paged - MBK - Scout 66 Jean-Sébastien Béland (Can) Equipe du Quebec 67 Bruno Langlois (Can) Jittery Joe's-Kalahari 68 Jens Schwedler (Ger) Stevens Racing Team DNF Michael Norton (USA) Team Nerac.com DNF Craig Wilcox (USA) Jittery Joe's-Kalahari DNF Martin St-Laurent (Can) Volkswagen-Trek DNF Luc Dionne (Can) Yeti Teams 1 Navigators Insurance 39.05.17 2 Paged - MBK - Scout 1.22 3 Symmetrics Cycling 2.09 4 Health Net pb Maxxis 3.25 5 Canada National Team 20.15 6 Team Cyclingnews.com 23.44 7 Amore & Vita – Beretta 23.58 8 Volkswagen Trek 24.03 9 Equipe Du Quebec 29.19 10 Italpasta - Transport Belmire C.C. 38.32 11 Stevens Racing 1.21.24 12 Jittery Joe's - Kalahari 1.39.40 13 CRCA/Sakonnet Technology 1.58.56 14 Yeti 2.03.16 General classification after stage 2 1 Dominique Rollin (Can) Equipe du Quebec 13.01.24 2 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators Insurance 0.12 3 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance 0.16 4 Dawid Krupa (Pol) Paged - MBK - Scout 0.19 5 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics 0.20 6 John Lieswyn (USA) Health Net pb Maxxis 7 Glen Alan Chadwick (Aus) Team Cyclingnews.com 0.28 8 Kacper Sowinski (Pol) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 1.11 9 Brandon Crichton (Can) Italpasta - Belmire Transport 1.16 10 Krzysztof Mermer (Pol) Paged - MBK - Scout 1.17 11 Jacob Erker (Can) Symmetrics 12 Mike Jones (USA) Health Net pb Maxxis 13 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Navigators Insurance 14 Wojciech Kalemba (Pol) Paged - MBK - Scout 1.37 15 David O'Loughlin (Irl) Navigators Insurance 1.45 16 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Symmetrics 2.17 17 Doug Ollerenshaw (USA) Health Net pb Maxxis 2.51 18 Dominique Perras (Can) Canadian National Team 2.53 19 Jean-François Laroche (Can) Equipe du Quebec 20 Jean-Sébastien Maheu (Can) Volkswagen-Trek 21 Cameron Jennings (Aus) Team Cyclingnews.com 3.46 22 Christian Meier (Can) Symmetrics 5.14 23 Charles Dionne (Can) Canadian National Team 6.03 24 Kimmo Kananen (Fin) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 25 Mike Sayers (USA) Health Net pb Maxxis 8.14 26 Martin Gilbert (Can) Volkswagen-Trek 11.29 27 Cesar Grajales (Col) Navigators Insurance 12.24 28 Justin England (USA) Health Net pb Maxxis 29 Domenico Passuello (Ita) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 17.35 30 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators Insurance 18.30 31 Timothy Johnson (USA) Jittery Joe's-Kalahari 18.40 32 Finn Heitmann (Ger) Stevens Racing Team 33 Max Plaxton (Can) Canadian National Team 34 Chris Isaac (Can) Italpasta - Belmire Transport 35 Jamie Burrow (GBr) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 36 Claudio Bartoli (Ita) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 37 Tomasz Lesniak (Pol) Paged - MBK - Scout 19.00 38 Oleg Grichkine (Rus) Navigators Insurance 19.33 39 Chris Kuhl (USA) CRCA/Sakonnet Technology 40 Cory Jay (Can) CRCA/Sakonnet Technology 19.40 41 Nat Faulkner (Can) Italpasta - Belmire Transport 42 Raphaël Tremblay (Can) Volkswagen-Trek 20.06 43 Christian Heule (Swi) Stevens Racing Team 20.41 44 Sven De Weerdt (Bel) Team Cyclingnews.com 21.32 45 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Symmetrics 22.38 46 Kevin Lacombe (Can) Volkswagen-Trek 24.52 47 Dustin Macburnie (Can) Yeti 25.00 48 Alexandre Nadeau (Can) Equipe du Quebec 27.11 49 Cory Lange (Can) Symmetrics 27.13 50 Bradley Fairall (Can) Symmetrics 33.29 51 Jeremy Vennell (NZl) Team Cyclingnews.com 52 Ryan Roth (Can) Canadian National Team 34.37 53 Tom Barras (GBr) Team Cyclingnews.com 38.00 54 Jonathan Sundt (USA) Jittery Joe's-Kalahari 38.56 55 Richard Bowker (NZl) Italpasta - Belmire Transport 38.57 56 Leigh Palmer (Aus) Team Cyclingnews.com 57 Przemyslaw Mikolajczyk (Pol) Paged - MBK - Scout 42.41 58 Mathieu Roy (Can) Equipe du Quebec 43.08 59 Evan Elken (USA) Jittery Joe's-Kalahari 60 Bruno Langlois (Can) Jittery Joe's-Kalahari 61 Jens Schwedler (Ger) Stevens Racing Team 62 Jean-Sébastien Béland (Can) Equipe du Quebec 52.42 63 Zach Bell (Can) Canadian National Team 55.25 64 Peter Morse (Can) Yeti 57.10 65 Peter Sanowar (Can) Italpasta - Belmire Transport 1.01.45 66 Alex Richer (Can) Yeti 1.20.40 67 Johny Hayes (USA) CRCA/Sakonnet Technology 1.24.56 68 Daniel Maclaren (Can) Italpasta - Belmire Transport 1.41.30 Points classification 1 Dominique Rollin (Can) Equipe du Quebec 33 pts 2 Domenico Passuello (Ita) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 26 3 David O'Loughlin (Irl) Navigators Insurance 25 4 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators Insurance 25 5 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance 24 6 Dawid Krupa (Pol) Paged - MBK - Scout 21 7 Martin Gilbert (Can) Volkswagen-Trek 19 8 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators Insurance 19 9 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics 17 10 Mike Jones (USA) Health Net pb Maxxis 15 11 Kacper Sowinski (Pol) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 14 12 Krzysztof Mermer (Pol) Paged - MBK - Scout 14 13 John Lieswyn (USA) Health Net pb Maxxis 13 14 Wojciech Kalemba (Pol) Paged - MBK - Scout 13 15 Tomasz Lesniak (Pol) Paged - MBK - Scout 12 16 Glen Alan Chadwick (Aus) Team Cyclingnews.com 11 17 Jacob Erker (Can) Symmetrics 10 18 Tom Barras (GBr) Team Cyclingnews.com 10 19 Kimmo Kananen (Fin) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 10 20 Brandon Crichton (Can) Italpasta - Belmire Transport 10 21 Jean-François Laroche (Can) Equipe du Quebec 8 22 Charles Dionne (Can) Canadian National Team 6 23 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Navigators Insurance 5 24 Jean-Sébastien Maheu (Can) Volkswagen-Trek 4 25 Jean-Sébastien Béland (Can) Equipe du Quebec 3 26 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Symmetrics 2 27 Przemyslaw Mikolajczyk (Pol) Paged - MBK - Scout 2 28 Timothy Johnson (USA) Jittery Joe's-Kalahari 2 29 Doug Ollerenshaw (USA) Health Net pb Maxxis 2 30 Jonathan Sundt (USA) Jittery Joe's-Kalahari 1 31 Max Plaxton (Can) Canadian National Team 1 Mountains classification 1 Wojciech Kalemba (Pol) Paged - MBK - Scout 36 pts 2 Mike Jones (USA) Health Net pb Maxxis 24 3 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Navigators Insurance 17 4 Cesar Grajales (Col) Navigators Insurance 14 5 Glen Alan Chadwick (Aus) Team Cyclingnews.com 14 6 Krzysztof Mermer (Pol) Paged - MBK - Scout 12 7 Dawid Krupa (Pol) Paged - MBK - Scout 12 8 Jean-Sébastien Béland (Can) Equipe du Quebec 10 9 Timothy Johnson (USA) Jittery Joe's-Kalahari 10 10 Kimmo Kananen (Fin) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 10 11 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance 9 12 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators Insurance 8 13 Dominique Perras (Can) Canadian National Team 8 14 Doug Ollerenshaw (USA) Health Net pb Maxxis 7 15 Dominique Rollin (Can) Equipe du Quebec 6 16 Chris Isaac (Can) Italpasta - Belmire Transport 6 17 John Lieswyn (USA) Health Net pb Maxxis 6 18 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators Insurance 5 19 Kacper Sowinski (Pol) Amore & Vita-Beretta-Polska 4 20 Justin England (USA) Health Net pb Maxxis 3 21 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics 1 22 Oleg Grichkine (Rus) Navigators Insurance 1
